Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] us in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have shown how group frequencies derived from experience with other molecules may be used to suggest assignments for particularly characteristic bands , and how the use of isotopes may assist us in the deduction of molecular structure and of the types of atoms involved in each mode . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll keep us in the picture , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | Sir John said placidly : ‘ If that is the case — that he knows something we do n't — I have little doubt that he 'll tell us in the fullness of time . ’ |
| 4 | This young man has come from Dublin to answer all our questions , and I had a letter from Mick Collins himself telling me that this young man would assist us in every way possible … " |
| 5 | At the end of the evening Surkov was surrounded by a group of admirers soliciting autographs , and he shouted at us to go on back to the hotel , he would join us in a while . |
| 6 | I still warm myself on memories of family parties where Uncle Brian would sing ‘ Unchained Melody ’ into a glass , Aunty Rosy would become more argumentative after her third sherry , Uncle Harold would lecture on the brilliance of Enoch Powell , and Dad would lead us in a community rendering of : |
| 7 | I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Esher ( Mr. Taylor ) that other countries are offering to help us to use their sovereignty in a way that will benefit us in the future . |
| 8 | Then conscience would not so much be a faculty of intuiting truths as a God-given power within us which — if put in control — will steer us in a particular direction , when it comes to choosing between ourselves and others . |
| 9 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 10 | We should , of course , be going into today 's game with Leech Town knowing that only a victory will keep us in the League . |
| 11 | ‘ It is the only thing that will defend us in the present crisis , ’ says Reddy . |
| 12 | ‘ Paul will join us in a minute . ’ |
| 13 | Patrick will join us in the organization , but for him to be able to work effectively , he will need to be able to move around freely . " |
| 14 | erm the the order which one , one I concern , maybe we can discuss if to , if , if the defendants were prepared to undertake to erm provide any as to instruct within twenty eight days from today , the matter should be list on and this convention on a Friday , Friday in about two or two and a half month 's time from now , which will take us in the next term , I , I beg a suggestion |
| 15 | John , some time this week you will tell us in the Midland Region that a package is just that , no picking the bits out , you either vote for the package or against . |
| 16 | Starting with cost reduction any cost reduction programme always involves a lot of redundancy and , and this is no exception and from the slide you 'll see that we 've er we 've had a staff reduction er , from the the plan for this year of one thousand and thirty three er and that 's the , that will save us in a full year something like fifteen point nine , sixteen million pounds . |
| 17 | Although I 'm not totally certain it will save us in the longer term . |
| 18 | Examining these theories from pragmatics will involve us in a substantial digression from our main concern : which is to account for our intuitions of coherence and thus gain insight into the needs of the language learner , who after all aims to be able to produce coherent discourse , not isolated sentences . |
| 19 | Here too there are suppressed assumptions about the proper methods of science which will concern us in the next chapter . |
| 20 | We must examine it to see what sense it can yield us in the case of those who , as it happens , are not men in the first place , and in what way , once this is done , it will have changed its meaning for those who , by no special fault or merit of their own , actually are so . |